The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-24
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
C. L. Fildes has been appointed County
Commissioner of Alachua county.
The Jacksonville workingmen propose
celebrating the Fourth in good style
The creosote works at Fernandina have
already cost about $50, 600 and are not near
! completed.
| On or about Sept. l next the Bar
| tow Adrdnce- Courier will be enla1 ged to a
nine-column paper.
The leading colored citizens of Gaines
vile are preparing to have Fourth Of July
celebration at divers Park
Mrs. Susan A. Hancock died at Apalachi-
cola, Tuesday She was near so years of
! age and settled there during the early days
of the town.
The last concrete work on the great tow
! ers of the Ponce de Leon Hotel has been
captured, and soon they will receive their
| finishing touches.
! The temperance convention, which was
| held in Orlando on Tuesday addressed a
petition to the County Commissioners, ask
| ing for an election for the enforcement of
article 10 Of the constitution.
The annual commencement of the st.
| Josephs Academy, at St Augustine, will be
| held on Tuesday, June IS, at the Opera
! House. The exercises will begin at 4 D. M
A large attendance is expected.
The Orlando Gun Club has accepted a
| challenge to shoot with team of Sanford
crack shots on the occasion of the Sanford
celebration on July 4. This will be pleas
ing feature of the day, and many will enjoy
| it.
DR. G. P. Guild, an eminent Baptist min
lister of the State, is at Gainesville, holding
an institute for the benefit of colored
| preachers. He is employed by the State
Board of Missions. The clergymen of the
| city will assist him.
An accidental discharge of pistol at the
store of c. D. Barrett, Sanford, on Monday
evening" came near doing serious damage,
the ball discharged from it passing in close
proximity to the heads of two persons stand
ing by, and burying itself in the ceiling
| above.
One of the curtains in the reading room of
the Saratoga Hall, Palatka, caught fire the
other night from a gas jet, but the fame
| was extinguished before any great damage
| was DONE As usual on such occasions, the
| fire created considerable excitement for a
| short time
| The North Gainesville Literary Society
held their second anniversary exercises in
their new hall on Monday night. An inter
| esting address was delivered by j. E. Web
ster, of that city. Also, other interesting
exercises, consisting of historical sketch,
| essays, poems, etc.
Benjamin Boyd, assistant postmaster of
the Palatka office, left this week for Wash
ington, where he will undergo a civil ser
vice examination, in the hope of being ap-
pointed post office inspector. During his
| absence w. c. Snow, late Republican post
master, fills his position.
The first issue of the Charlotte Harbor
Beacon, weekly paper will make its APP
pearance on June >. 1t will be published
| at Hickory Bluff. r. S. Hanna, promi-
nent young lawyer of South Florida, will
| be found at the helm 1t will be devoted to
the interest of the Charlotte Harbor region
in particular South Florida in general, and
| in politics Democratic.
A basket picnic and grand temperance
rally will be held on Newnan's Lake, at
| Windsor, Alachua county, on July A. All
| temperance workers, Loyal Legions, Sun
| day school children and voters of the county
are invited to be present and participate IN
| this grand rally. A beautiful cool place
| has been selected on the lake shore Short
speeches, music, recitatons, and pleasant
| time generally may be expected.
There was great deal of excitement at
the Mayors Court at Gainesville Tuesday
| morning Attorney Hughes insulted Mayor
| Scott and was fined S25 and ordered to Jail
Hughes then cursed the Mayor and the fine
was doubled, making it $50. Hughes went
to jail this afternoon and got a writ of
| ley. All the parties go to Ocala in the
| morning. The citizens stand by Mayor
| Scott. The marshal was also suspended for
alleged disobedience of orders.
A great deal of work is going on at Moul-
| trie, a thriving village six miles south of
| st. Augustine. H. F. Taylor has purchased
an extensive piece of property there, in
Guiding "Turpentne Pond" which is now
being chained. At the bottom of this pond
a superior quality of coarse sand has been
| discovered, suitable for building purposes
| Along the ditch a track will be laid to Moul-
trie creek and the sand hauled out to be de
posted in barges and then brought to st.
Augustine for the new Alcazar.
A gentleman from Pablo reports that the
| beach is lined with thousands of small dead
| fish short distance from the pavilion as
| far as he walked. He said that at low tide
he noticed the fish in the edge of the water
He did not know what kind they were, but
| said that they were between five and seven
| inches in length, and were, as a general
thing, white. Among the lot he noticed one
| shark, which was about three feet in length.
| Where the fish came from or the cause of
their destruction he could not say
| Mandarin is one of the best sections of
| Duval county. 1t is populated by an in
| dustrious, intelligent and honest people
who till the soil and grow fruits for home
consumption and for market. The farmers
| up there sixteen miles south OF jacksonville
are now bringing to the market the largest
and best vegetables and melons to be found
in the city. They turned in for the past
season 200, 600 quarts Last winter some of
the finest oranges produced in the State
came from that section, and next winter
the growers promise 10000 crates of good
| fruit.
The large volume of water which is flow
ing down Peace river, caused by the rains,
has driven the salt water fish out into
the harbor, and consequently, people no
longer get up before daylight, step out on
the wharf clothed in species of Georgia
uniform, throw out a line, land a six or
seven pound trout or pompano, hang it up
the kitchen door and go back to bed. The
times are changed. Fish have stopped
biting for awhile, and fishing poles are laid
aside and the people reluctantly have to go
back TO the fare of wild turkey and console
themselves with the knowledge that the
rain won't last forever.
Tuesday one of Queen Victoria's loyal
subjects, a resident of Rutledge, was ar
rested by Deputy sheriff Collins, of Alachua
county, on a warrant sworn out by his
neighbors. IL seems that the Queens sub
iect is engaged in the laudable and praise
worthy occupation of farming at Rutledge,